So, I haven't has a blog since I was in high school and that was short lived. What with school, homework, friends, swimming and reading I never saw the point after I had established it. Oh, I should also mention that I was also writing on and off throughout that time also, which brings me to the point of this blog.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone arrived in my home after my aunt gave it to my brother for Christmas the year it hit the shelves. Rather than love the book my brother simply said it was okay and passed it to me. I took to the pages like they were a long lost friend. I could not stop reading it! (My mother even preordered the rest of the books. THANK YOU, MOM!!) Jo Rowling's imagination and my teacher's insistence on a journal in class started my writing frenzy.
The next year (with the same English teacher) began my creation of Isabella. Little did I know that she would morph into a legacy. Every week I would write another chapter in the series that had my teacher wanting more. I still have that journal. I later rewrote it in another notebook where Isabella took more dramatic and mature turns than my 8th grade mind could have imagined.
Today my first book is completed and waiting to be read by my best friend to give me the confidence to subscribe to a publishing website. Anticipation of her finishing the next two chapters before sending her another section is excruciating. So, I thought I would pass the time between my full-time job and writing the second installment to post here for new, young and old writers and other Nerd Fighters to gain the confidence that I desperately wanted and needed back when I first imagined Isabella.
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